POTTER (sarcastically) Look at you. You used to be so cocky! You were going to go out and conquer the world! You once called me a warped, frustrated old man. What are you but a warped, frustrated young man? A miserable little clerk crawling in here on your hands and knees and begging for help. No securities �� no stocks �� no bonds �� nothing but a miserable little five hundred dollar equity in a life insurance policy. You're worth more dead than alive. Why don't you go to the riff-raff you love so much and ask them to let you have eight thousand dollar? You know why? Because they'd run you out of town on a rail . . .But I'll tell you what I'm going to do for you, George. Since the state examiner is still here, as a stockholder of the Building and Loan, I'm going to swear out a warrant for your arrest.
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He looks around him, then quickly goes out the front door of the house. Mary goes to the phone, picks it up.
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INTERIOR LIVING ROOM �� NIGHT CLOSE SHOT �� The room has suddenly become ominously quiet, the only SOUND being George's labored breathing. George goes over to a corner of the room where his workshop is set up �� a drawing table, several models of modern buildings, bridges, etc. Savagely he kicks over the models, picks up some books and hurls them into the corner. Mary and the children watch, horrified. George looks around and sees them staring at him as if he were some unknown wild animal. The three children are crying.
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We hear his footsteps as he leaves. Mary looks after him, puzzled and concerned, then comes over to Pete.
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Suddenly the door opens and George comes striding out. He goes directly to the safe and starts searching, but doesn't find the money. Then he goes to the cash drawer in the counter, and looks through it.
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She looks at him, then says a strange thing.
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He hangs up agitatedly, muttering to himself as he goes into his own office. Cousin Tilly and Cousin Eustace look after him, dumbfounded.
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INTERIOR BANK �� DAY CLOSE SHOT �� deposit slip desk. Uncle Billy looks around for the money envelope. It is not there. He looks puzzled, thinks hard, then a look of concern creeps into his eyes. He starts thumping his pockets, with increasing panic, and looks in the waste paper basket on the floor. He finally rushes through the door and out into the street.
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(as they go) Come on, look sharp.
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He sees the envelope, looks inside at the money. Then, to his goon, indicating the office door: POTTER (cont'd) Take me back there. Hurry up.
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UNCLE BILLY (cont'd) (looks bewildered) I know I had . . .
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GEORGE (cont'd) (on phone) But look . . .
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(gives them papers) Now look, this is for you. This is for you, this is for you.
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GEORGE (reading) Commander Harry Bailey. Mr. Gower, look at this �� the second page.
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GEORGE (outraged) What do you mean �� it's gonna snow again? Look at the headlines.
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GEORGE (holding out paper) Hi, Ernie, look at that.
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The big black limousine glides away, leaving George standing with his arm around Mary, gazing broodingly after it. They slowly walk over to George's old car and look at it silently.
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(indicating map) There's the old cemetery, squirrels, buttercups, daisies. Used to hunt rabbits there myself. Look at it today. Dozens of the prettiest little homes you ever saw. Ninety per cent owned by suckers who used to pay rent to you. Your Potter's Field, my dear Mr. Employer, is becoming just that. And are the local yokels making with those David and Goliath wisecracks!
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